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Summer course on environmental management
Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment is organising a month-long summer certificate course on the policies, politics and practices of environmental management in India. The course will start on June 1 and the last date for submission of application is April 10, 2009.
| What | Course |
|---|---|
| When |
01 June 2009
to 30 June 2009 |
| Where | New Delhi, India |
| Contact Name | Sharmila Sinha |
| Contact Email | sharmila@cseindia.org |
| Contact Phone | 91-11-29955125, Ext: 270 |
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During this intensive course, participants will explore the complexities underlying the environment-development debate in India.
They will have lectures, readings, presentations, and debates. Participants will also get time to read, report, watch films and review them, attend seminars, and interact with guest speakers, eminent activists and policymakers. As part of their assignment, participants will put together a journalistic product – online documentary project using text, video and audio; alternatively they will also report, edit and design a magazine.
Course instructors are drawn from Centre for Science and Environment’s (CSE’s) research and programme teams.
The course is inspired by a concern that animated the work of eminent environmentalist Anil Agarwal, whose ideas on environment and sustainability remain relevant even today: the need to balance economic growth and ecological concern. He called it ‘the challenge of the balance’.
Course modules:
- State of India’s environment: An overview
- The environmental movement in India
- Poverty and the biomass economy
- Ecological rights and natural resource management
- Land and its use: Agriculture, food security
- Conservation and conflict: wildlife management debate
- Urban growth challenges: Water and waste management, air pollution and mobility
- Sustainable industrialisation and public health concerns
- Climate change and global environmental governance
- A week-long field trip to rural India to explore eco-restoration efforts at the grassroots level.
Course duration: June 1- 30, 2009
Eligibility: A total of 30 participants will be selected. The course is open to young professionals and college students from any stream.
Admission criteria: Candidates are required to submit a 500-word essay on any one of the following topics:
- More flyovers or better public transport: What will reduce congestion in Indian cities?
- Do you agree or disagree with the statement: “Water should be everybody’s business”.
Application deadline:
Please ensure that the entrance essay and the candidate's resume/ CV reach CSE (via post, fax or email) latest by Friday, April 10, 2009.
Course fee: Rs 5,000
Includes training fees, local and outstation field excursions, select reading materials, together with lunch and refreshments during training days.
Note: The fees (including the fee for accommodation, if needed) may be paid after your participation in the course is confirmed.
Accommodation:
We will arrange accommodation for select outstation candidates for a nominal charge of Rs 5,000 for one month (stay and food).
Some fellowships are available to support outstation candidates.
Kamla Chowdhry Fellowships:
The prestigious Kamla Chowdhry Fellowships will be awarded to select candidates on the basis of their performance in the entrance essay.
Course Contact:
Sharmila Sinha
Anil Agarwal Green Centre
Tel: 91-11-29955125, Ext: 270
Fax: 91-11-29955879
E-mail: sharmila@cseindia.org; aagc@cseindia.org
Venue:
Anil Agarwal Green Centre
38, Tughlakabad Institutional Area
New Delhi–110062
